The church,
encircled by its graveyard, is built on a
hillside in the lower part of the small
village of St Romain de Monpazier.
It was built during the
twelfth and
thirteenth centuries.
It is small with an unusual shape: a square
chancel with a single-bayed nave running
perpendicular to it. The vestry was added to
the north of the chancel at a later date.
The nave, covered with round barrel vaulting,
is situated underneath the imposing,
fortified bell tower.
There are two
entrances to the church; the west portal
which corresponds to the original entrance,
and the north portal which was pierced in
the eighteenth century.
In the sixteenth
century, a round arch was built in the south
wall of the chancel opening it onto a side
chapel. The round barrel vaulting of the
chapel is perpendicular to that of the
chancel. A gabled wall-belfry sits astride
the defence tower.
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